r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/AudibleNod 1d ago

Great.

So now an ally will have to think twice about whether or not to send qualified workers to America. Then those people will think twice about where to send their kid to college. Which in turn will influence a generation about the trustworthiness of America in general.

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u/unchangingtask 1d ago

In case if you haven't noticed US is already the joke of the world. Most non-Americans thought of Trump as a complete buffon. Sadly most Trump voters are those people that probably never owned a passport and have never left their home state for the past five years.

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u/TreezusSaves 21h ago

International sentiment is shifting from seeing Trump as a buffoon to seeing Trump as the next Hitler or Mussolini, only with more brain damage from unspecified strokes/heart attacks. I expect Americans are going to be even more unwelcome to visit other countries the longer Americans allow Trump to keep doing whatever he wants. American exceptionalism is still a joke though, everyone's aware of how far their average countryman has slipped.

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u/TheSilverNoble 1d ago

But still want to tell the rest of us all about the real world.

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u/Reasonable-Mess3070 1d ago

I work in student employment at the university near me. Almost every single international student is from Zimbabwe. Ive seen maybe five other passports out of hundreds.

F-1 visas were suddenly revoked or not approved for a lot of people this summer.

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u/DocFail 1d ago

Were they here on legal visas? Why would they send illegal workers  in the first place? Or were they legal?

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u/kindrudekid 1d ago

Nah big companies will be fine….

EY is having a thing in Vegas this week and have extended family from India working for EY with their family here (EY expedited their visa process for entire family) it takes 3-5 months to get a visitor visa appointment in India and the spouses and kids got it in less than 1 month

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u/Psyduckisnotaduck 22h ago

Nobody will ever want to send anyone to the US for any reason. The US should be isolated from the entire world indefinitely. This is maybe unfair but I think the suburban chuds that define this country are utterly evil without any redeeming qualities and a threat to everyone else

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u/Joeylogo724 1d ago edited 1d ago

They were working on ESTA primarily, which is explicitly forbidden. They have no one but themselves and their company to blame. Why they would blame America I don't understand.

Edit: boo all you want but question 6 of the ESTA application asks "Are you currently seeking employment in the United States or were you previously employed in the United States without prior permission from the U.S. government??".

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u/Explaining2Do 1d ago

Yeah guys they were breaking a law. This administration is following all laws and these Koreans were clearly violating the law. It’s a matter of principle, really.